Heaven is laying in my sweet baby’s arms, hell is when my baby’s not here.
WAYLON JENNINGSThose neon light nights, couldn’t stay out of fights, keeps a-haunting me in memories.
More Waylon Jennings Quotes
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That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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Take your tongue out of my mouth, I’m kissing you good-bye.
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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England.
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I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I’m really about.
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There is one in every crowd, for crying out loud, why was is always turning out to be me?
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
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I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn’t know how, but somehow I’d caused it.
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There’s always one more way to do things and that’s your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.
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Got my Allman Brothers cassettes stacked up on the dash, got some Jack back in the trunk and a tank full of gas.
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What bothers me most is that I don’t bother you.
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The only problem was I needed to use my own group, and things didn’t happen until I did. It wasn’t a real country sound.
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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart.
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If you see me getting smaller, I’m leaving, don’t be grieving, just gotta get away from here. If you see me getting smaller, don’t worry, and no hurry, I’ve got the right to disappear.
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Hitting the bottle again, ever than I’ve drunker been. Or is it drunker than I’ve ever been?
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Mainly what I learned from Buddy… was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn’t have any barriers to it.
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I don’t believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.
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I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to “have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn’t want us to be the ones.
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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don’t know…
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I don’t think there’s anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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I mean, I think we’re put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with.
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We got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain’t it funny how they prosper while the country stands still?
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason…
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